IRS CLERK ADMITS GUILT TO SINGLE DRUG COUNT

An Internal Revenue Service clerk accused of dealing drugs at the agency's Ogden Service Center has pleaded guilty to reduced charges and faces a Sept. 18 sentencing.

Louis Sandoval, Weber County, was one of 10 people charged in the case and the second to plead guilty.Sandoval pleaded guilty to a single count of distributing cocaine in exchange for a second charge being dropped. Another defendant, Todd Williams, last month pleaded in a similar arrangement with prosecutors.

The case involved multiple drug charges against four IRS employees, a service center security guard and three contract IRS maintenance workers, as well as two people not employed at the center.